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Arabia: through the Looking Glass

Arabia: through the Looking Glass

Name: Arabia: through the Looking Glass
ISBN: 9781780601397

Jonathan Raban

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Into Jonathan Raban s familiar Earls Court neighbourhood after the 1970s oil boom came new visitors from the Arab world, dressed in floor-length robes and yashmaks. A people apart, little known, Raban wanted to get behind the myth and the rumour to discover the reality of their lives and world. His journey took him through Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan. What he discovered was a far cry from the camel, tent and sand dune archetypes of early European explorers. Oil wealth had seeped into almost every corner, and Bedouin encampments had been replaced by cosmopolitan boomtowns, camels by Range Rovers. The sons of Bedouin nomads were now studying medicine in Europe and engineering in New York. Yet in this fast-moving world, old certainties remained and cultural innovation lagged miles behind economic change

种类:

Travel - Travel Writing

年:

2018

出版社:

Eland Publishing Ltd

语言:

english

页:

312

ISBN 10:

1780601395